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4000t Recording problems

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WavyDavy

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I have a 4000t which has given good service up to now.
Now if it powers down for any reason (power loss or even using the power button), it "recovers" some old recordings according to the menu, but when you look at them they are empty and have no descriptions. Sometimes 80 or more of them. It's time-consuming to go through and delete them.
Also it recovers some old series schedules but they don't work and usually won't delete.
It does also occassionaly loose some schedules, seemingly randomly.
I'm wondering if it is worthwhile changing the HDD. I have tried reformatting the old one, but the problems soon come back.
For £30 or so I think it maybe worth a try, but has anyone any other ideas?
 
If you've already reformatted the HDD and the problems reoccur then I'd think it's unlikely to be an HDD problem. Have you tried a factory reset? Have you tried a complete power off? - Turn off with the remote or on-device power button, wait until the disk noises cease (could be a long time), completely disconnect from the mains, wait a few minutes and restore power. If the Humax is still misbehaving after that you could try a replacement HDD but I think it'd be a waste of time and money.
 
EEPhil said:
If you've already reformatted the HDD and the problems reoccur then I'd think it's unlikely to be an HDD problem. Have you tried a factory reset? Have you tried a complete power off? - Turn off with the remote or on-device power button, wait until the disk noises cease (could be a long time), completely disconnect from the mains, wait a few minutes and restore power. If the Humax is still misbehaving after that you could try a replacement HDD but I think it'd be a waste of time and money.
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Thanks for the reply.
Yes I have done a factory reset, and have powered off, but maybe not as long as you suggest. Will give that a go. Only problem is that however I power down it corrupts the recoding list. It doesn't loose any recordings just adds loads of them as I mentioned. Will give it another go. Otherwise its another PVR, possibly a Aura.
 
As I had a suitable hdd I decided to change the disk. Now it won't record and won't pause live tv which leads me to think the hdd isn't being written to.
The sake thing happens with the old disk, which unfortunately I had reformatted to ntfs.
I have tried reformatting using both the system commands, including factory reset. No difference. is there anything else I could try such as formatting to a different format prior to installing in the 4000t?
 
WavyDavy said:
is there anything else I could try such as formatting to a different format prior to installing in the 4000t?
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I can't see as that would achieve anything at all. Formatting is formatting. I would only worry if the formatting process seemed to take too little time.
 
Black Hole said:
I can't see as that would achieve anything at all. Formatting is formatting. I would only worry if the formatting process seemed to take too little time.
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Thanks for the reply. Have had another go. Taken the hdd out, re installed re-formatted and its now working. Not sure what cured it, it did ask me to agree to the T & C's which had skipped before, but whatever its working.
 
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